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10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2022
It also summarizes the vagrancy status of every bird family in the whole wide world, which makes it fun to read as well as superbly educational. The Family Accounts are the fun part of the book. The Family Accounts are also a deeply informational, documented source of information for researchers.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2021
Ballantine and Hyman explore how birds communicate and summarize studies on how that communication functions in diverse bird families all over the world. I do wish there was more about research on female bird song. © 2021 Barbara Ballentine and Jeremy Hyman & Quarto Publishing. And, that’s it.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2020
Two maps of the northwest Bronx and adjacent Yonkers, one from 1891 and one from 2015, pp. E-bird data up to November 2017 was used to update migrational pattern data and “for locating obscure but locally significant records that otherwise might never have seen the light of day” (p. They wrote books and published research.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2019
Clearly, author Phyllis Limbacher Tildes, the author of 24, soon to be 25, children’s books, is also a birder (and a little research brings up a presentation she gave at Ogeechee Audubon, Georgia with the biographical information and she and her family “love watching birds and wildlife seen near their lagoon on Skidaway Island.”
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
The archipelago consists of 17,000 islands stretching out over 2500 miles along the Equator with a varied history of avian research and study, most on the under- or not-studied side. I like the pages where a new family is shown facing the other way, like page 91, where the nightjars face right and the rails face left. Species Accounts.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
Covering 1,261 species with data and taxonomy current up to August 2017, the field guide is an exciting achievement. Within families, the species are arranged less taxonomically and more in line with “design and space considerations,” (Introduction), and on the plates themselves, species are arranged to facilitate comparison.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 3, 2017
There was a cut-off point at which birds could not be added, which explains why the Temminck’s Stint found by our own Clare and Grant in November 2015, a first for Australia, nor the recently found Nicobar Pigeon are, are not included. Each family group begins with a small box summarizing the characteristics of the family in Australia.
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